London

Archive
30 March 2009

College highlights poor PACS image sharing

Picture Archiving and Communication Systems are largely successful in individual hospitals but communication between systems in different hospitals is poor,
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25 March 2009

LAS system crashes again

The London Ambulance Service computer system crashed for nearly two hours on one of the busiest nights of the year
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24 March 2009

CfH aims for 4 million HealthSpace users by 2014

NHS Connecting for Health says it is hoping to sign up 4m patients to its online personal health record HealthSpace by
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19 March 2009

Tower Hamlets deploys OneSign

Tower Hamlets has become the latest primary care trust to use Imprivata OneSign. The single sign-on solution is being rolled
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17 March 2009

Mid Staffs death rates – poor care not poor data

A trust that tried to blame high death rates on inadequate systems for recording patient data is to be condemned
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12 March 2009

NHS boss puts programme tender on table

NHS chief executive David Nicholson told MPs on Wednesday that the Department of Health is going to tender for alternatives
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12 March 2009

Next London Cerner go-live delayed until Autumn

The next deployment of Cerner Millennium in London will not occur until the autumn; more than a year after the
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9 March 2009

Cerner director is Obama’s health czar

US president Barack Obama has announced a former director of Cerner Corporation as director of the White House Office for
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9 March 2009

NHS Brent gets PBC support

The first project under the Department of Health’s practice-based commissioning support framework has begun work. Clinicians and managers in NHS
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6 March 2009

Homes smart enough to talk

The University of Bath has showcased a ‘smart’ home for people with dementia at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research
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